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The Dartmouth community recently welcomed Dr. Alli Mcharazo, the senior
librarian at Muhimbili University College of
Health Sciences and the chairman of the Tanzanian Library Association.
Mcharazo visited for two weeks in early December, and he met with a variety of
people on campus as part of Dartmouth's Global Health
Initiative, which is led by Dartmouth
Medical School (DMS) and the Dickey Center.
Stephen Spielberg (left), dean of Dartmouth Medical School, and Dr. Alli
Mcharazo, senior librarian at Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences
and the chairman of the Tanzanian Library Association. Mcharazo spent two weeks
at Dartmouth in December through Dartmouth's Global Health Initiative. (Photo
by Joseph Mehling '69)
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Mcharazo was particularly interested in Dartmouth's comprehensive library
offerings, and he met with numerous representatives from Dartmouth's two biomedical libraries, the Dana
Biomedical Library (on the Dartmouth campus) and the Matthews-Fuller Health
Sciences Library (at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center). He also met with
people involved with Web site operations, fundraising initiatives, continuing
education efforts, and engineering experts about a project now underway to
deliver reliable and consistent electric power to the Tanzanian university. He
also visited libraries at the University of Vermont and at Harvard
University.
"I had met Dr. Mcharazo and learned much from him on one of my visits to Dar
es Salaam," says Richard Waddell, a research assistant professor of medicine at
DMS who helped orchestrate the visit. "I'm so glad we could return the favor by
arranging for him to come to Dartmouth and meet with some people on our
campus."
Dartmouth's Global Health Initiative includes the creation of an extended
global health program in Tanzania, engaging campus and community members in a
discussion of global health issues, and a curricular component, which will
include developing new courses in global health for undergraduates. In addition
to the Dickey Center and DMS, it also involves faculty from arts and sciences, the Tuck School, and the Thayer School of Engineering.
The GHI is a multidisciplinary program that builds on the College's ongoing
DARDAR (Dartmouth
College/University of Dar es Salaam) project. Conducted by Ford von Reyn, DMS
Head of Infectious Diseases with Kisali Palangyo, Principal of the Muhimbili
University College of Health and Sciences (MUCHS) in Tanzania, the initiatives
comprising DARDAR include a clinic for children with HIV/AIDS, a trial of a
vaccine for tuberculosis associated with HIV/AIDS and a five-year Fogarty
Foundation training grant for researchers in Tanzania.
By SUSAN KNAPP
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